Engineering mathemagics
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But if you turn it back on the conscious doesn't return. Electricity is the energy conscious runs on, but it's not consciousness.
The trouble is that even the consciousness maintenance needs power. If the power is out for too long the infrastructure is too damaged. So it actually does return when you turn it off. It just has to be done quickly enough.
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The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).
(in exchange for the ability to go outside)
Real
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Hard magic systems are my favourites, usually. The limitations are more interesting than the possibilities.
Have you read Ra?
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It's a house fly!
You win this one.
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Gotta love the progression in this.
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This one's a bit interestingly shaped...
If that is a dick, it looks like it has some very serious STDs.
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That's... huh...
Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???
(Unless you're a physicist, in which case... fuck)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yea I only have a bachelor's in physics, can't explain the black magic fuckery that is electromagnetism. Go find someone with a PhD, I bailed to be an engineer
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Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave
No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items
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Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.
You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.
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Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
My version seems like another good corollary.
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If that is a dick, it looks like it has some very serious STDs.
Nah, it's just new and improved: with Wings! (to stay in the right place all night long)
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Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.
You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.
There's a lot of machinists who think they are hot shit, so fitting username.
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There's a lot of machinists who think they are hot shit, so fitting username.
Yup. Thing is, it's known that 'machinists' coming out of trade school aren't worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.
This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.
Engineers shouldn't have design authority until they've spent a few years manufacturing.
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Yup. Thing is, it's known that 'machinists' coming out of trade school aren't worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.
This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.
Engineers shouldn't have design authority until they've spent a few years manufacturing.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They are required to have a minimum of three years of design experience and have to pass a PE exam before they are allowed to verify their own designs.
Up until that point, all of their designs are required to be sealed by another PE.
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RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!
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They are required to have a minimum of three years of design experience and have to pass a PE exam before they are allowed to verify their own designs.
Up until that point, all of their designs are required to be sealed by another PE.
My bad, not design authority as that's a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn't catch much.
Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who's been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.
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The trouble is that even the consciousness maintenance needs power. If the power is out for too long the infrastructure is too damaged. So it actually does return when you turn it off. It just has to be done quickly enough.
That's why electroconvulsive therapy uses pulses of about a millisecond. But, then, it's not actually turning the power off, ECT is more of a warm reset of consciousness.
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An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts
Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel
The bible of my people
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That's... huh...
Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???
(Unless you're a physicist, in which case... fuck)
I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You'd push a heavy object ... and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.
FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn't help in this case.
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An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts
Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel
Omg I cant believe this is real.
